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As we emerge from work-from-home solitude and head back into the office, the role of human resources has never been more critical. In a time when policy foreshadows strategy, all eyes are on HR. The workforce is crammed into the starting gate waiting for a bell to sound. Here are the big questions to ponder:

• When will we return to the office and in what form?
• How will we get back to larger organizational meetings and events?
• Will the tools we've adapted to work from home remain the backbone of our
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As a manager, your job is pretty straightforward: make sure the people on your team do their work as well and as efficiently as possible.

Good managers accomplish this by putting their team members first, keeping their focus on the business (not on their own ego), communicating honestly and frequently, rewarding success, and publicly promoting their teams. They seek qualified candidates who can add to the company culture and bring new perspectives to the business.

Bad managers attempt to lead with indifference and intimidation. They often focus their energies...

As employers, we all have a vested interest in the success and wellbeing of our team members. Our employees create and maintain the fabric of our company’s culture and help power our business successes.

With Financial Literacy Month shining a spotlight on financial stress throughout April, this is an opportunity for employers to revamp their financial education programming for the year ahead, engage their staff in lively discussions on financial health, and begin thinking of new ways to integrate financial literacy throughout their organizations – including their payroll administration program.

A growing problem of financial stress

Employees distracted...

Before I get into the arithmetic – WHICH IS EASY – I must establish first that there is no law on this. This is just something that your payroll/accounting/HR folks will quibble over from time to time, so you need an expert to make it canon. That’s what this is all about: How to convert a salary into an hourly wage.

The simplest and most common methods to make the conversion are as follows:

Simply use the annual salary and divide into it the scheduled hours per year.

Example: John earns...